In the 2013 documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, Kanye elaborated on how formative Dilla was in shaping the musician and MC he became.

“We gotta make music and think, ‘If Dilla was alive, would he like this?'” West said. “I have to work on behalf of Dilla. When I put a weird-ass Jamaican sample, it works at first but it’s not until I put the [makes discordant musical noise] that it sounds like art or sounds slightly wrong. And now it’ll go to the radio now that it’s wrong, motherf—–. Now play this. Play this 5-minute song that completely f—- up your programming. The best respect that we can pay to great artists that have inspired us so much is to never sell out.”